Modi 3.0 cabinet: Thakur, Irani, Munda among 37 ministers dropped
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New Delhi: There is no room to swing a cat in Prime Minister Narender Modi’s new cabinet as over half of the existing 71 ministers could not find place in the new Council of Ministers, The Indian Express reported.
The notables including Anurag Singh Thakur and Smriti Zubin Irani could not find a place in the new Council of Ministers.
It is reported that at least seven cabinet ministers and 30 Ministers of State are left with no place in the newly-formed Union Council.
The Council of Ministers is made up of 30 cabinet ministers five Ministers of State (Independent charge) alongside 36 Ministers of State.
There were 26 cabinet ministers, three Ministers of State (Independent Charge), and 42 Ministers of State in the outgoing Union Council of Ministers, according to the report.
Interestingly, seven out of the 26 cabinet ministers have been dropped while forming the new one.
Those who have failed to find place as cabinet minister include Arjun Munda, Parshottam Rupala, Smriti Zubin Irani, Narayan Tatu Rane, Raj Kumar Singh, Mahendra Nath Pandey, and Anurag Singh Thakur.
However, Munda, Smriti Irani, Mahendra Nath Pandey, and RK Singh lost Lok Sabha polls. Nevertheless winning, Rupala, Thakur, and Rane could not find a ministerial berth in the Modi 3.0.
It is further reported that out of the existing 42 Ministers of State, 30 have been dropped.
The minister of state including Kailash Choudhary, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Kapil Moreshwar Patil and Dr Sanjeev Kumar Balyan failed to make it the cabinet this time.
Those who failed to make it the list are Ashwini Kumar Choubey, General (Retd.) VK Singh, Danve Raosaheb Dadarao, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma, Darshana Vikram Jardosh, V Muraleedharan, Meenakashi Lekhi, among others.